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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby Nickelmeister » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:54 pm

Or as Blackrabbit suggests, if the pendant reads 1.0 grams then the gross weight ought to be 2.4 grams with fine gold content of 1g.
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby stlouiscoin » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:15 pm

I see 1 gram too. If you look closely, you can see a tiny . between the 1 and 0.
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby OneBiteAtATime » Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:21 pm

LOL. Just weighed it. 1 gram. Wonder if I need to hit it with the acid... :? .
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby 68Camaro » Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:39 pm

1 gram of 10 kt... wow. .04 grams. That's about 25 to the toz.
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby blackrabbit » Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:50 pm

It is probably real 10k, just purposefully manufactured to be confusing like many silver items I have seen.
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby ScottyTX » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:29 pm

Wow, that sucks so what were you thinking it was when you bid on it? 10 grams of .999 or 1.0 grams of .999 gold?? or something different...just curious.

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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby OneBiteAtATime » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:34 pm

ScottyTX wrote:Wow, that sucks so what were you thinking it was when you bid on it? 10 grams of .999 or 1.0 grams of .999 gold?? or something different...just curious.

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Originally, I was thinking 10g of 999. My notes said to go about $500.

I got away with one though. I won this for $70, thinking the necklace should be good too. (Not.)

So I lose a couple of worthless dollars and RElearn the lesson I've learned over and over:

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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby frugi » Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:09 pm

the best lessons are learned through mistakes, I have made hundreds, and hundreds, perhaps thousands of mistakes, that is what has made me the person I am today. I can spot a fake from 10 feet away. Although, most pieces of fake gold are like "50 Yard Girls", meaning ALL girls look good at 50 Yards, unless you had time to preview something at the auction, NEVER take anyones word for anything. If you didnt get a chance to do a pre-inspection and you are going into a bid blind, you will almost always be wrong. It is rare to find sleepers at auctions. take it from a licensed auctioneer..me.
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby alpacafarmer » Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:10 pm

My dad came in from an auction to have me check that he didn't screw up buying 72 silver quarters for $170 :)
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby shinnosuke » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:00 pm

Hmm...I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.
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Re: Blinded by the shiny......

Postby frugi » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:17 pm

shinnosuke wrote:Hmm...I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.


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